A FIU Teach-In: Haiti, One Year Later

One year later, Haiti is still struggling to recover a sense of normalcy. And the hopes the world community had of reconstructing the poorest nation in the western hemisphere into a functioning, stable state are fading away.

That was the consensus of the panel of Florida International University experts who gathered to discuss Haiti’s progress one year after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the island nation. The limited reconstruction that is taking place in Port-au-Prince seems to follow the same poor building standards that failed Haiti in the first place, while the political process is showing signs of the same ailments that plagued the country before the earthquake.